What The Bible Is All About: “The Old Testament”

What The Bible Is All About

“The Old Testament”

12/1/24

Pastor Mark England

The word Bible means .

It was written over a period of years in over a countries on there continents by people in different languages.

The Bible was written by, poets, prophets, farmers, kings, soldiers, shepherds, princes, priests, historians, fisherman, tax collectors, scholars, businessmen and doctors.

There is only one of the Bible.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 (CSB) All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

The Old Testament vs. The New Testament

Testament: “”

The pact of the type of God would have with people. It was an on how the relationship would be formed.

Three Types of Covenants

1. Covenant (Justified by faith alone)

2. Covenant (Justified by the law / blood sacrifice)

3. Covenant through Jesus Christ.

The Old Testament tells the story about a .

The New Testament tells the story about a .

The Old Testament centers around and .

The New Testament centers around and the .

The Old Testament gathers around .
The New Testament gathers around the .

The Old Testament shows the of God against sin.

The New Testament shows the of God against sinners.

The Old Testament writes the law externally on . (You have to do it.)
The New Testament writes the law internally on . (You want to do it.)

Matthew 5:17 (CSB) “Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to .

The Story of the Old Testament

Law: 5 books – Genesis through Deuteronomy

History: 12 books – Joshua through Esther

Poetry and Wisdom: 5 books – Job through Song of Solomon
Prophets: 17 books – 5 Major Prophets – Isaiah through Daniel

12 Minor Prophets – Hosea through Malachi

The Story of the Old Testament Is Simple

Begins in Eden (Paradise) where God was in relationship with man.

Chapter 3 of Genesis, enters into man’s heart.

Sin always does two things…

1. You will feel a from God that He never wanted.

2. will enter into your life.

*If God feels a million miles away, and your life is in chaos… there’s sin that God can .

*You can have with God and in the middle of your chaos.

This has been His plan. To reconcile man back into a with Him. He does this through His taking our punishment on the .

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NIV) “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
³² It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. ³³ “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

The Mirror Image

Paradise = Hebrew/Greek: “Resort”

Malachi 4:1-6 (NLT) The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says, “The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They will be consumed—roots, branches, and all.

² “But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. ³ On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

⁴ “Remember to obey the Law of Moses, my servant—all the decrees and regulations that I gave him on Mount Sinai for all Israel.

⁵ “Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord arrives.⁶ His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse.”